FOX INTRODUCING FIVE NEW SHOWS

In closing out the week of broadcast upfront presentations, the Fox network Thursday announced five new scripted shows for the 2008-09 season, with just two starting in the fall.

The shows come from some big names, among them J.J. Abrams, Joss Whedon, Mitchell Hurwitz and Seth MacFarlane.

"Lost" creator Abrams is behind the one new fall drama, "Fringe," which has a similar airliner mystery - a flight at Boston's Logan Airport that lands with all passengers and crew dead. An eccentric scientist (John Noble) is called in to help investigators.

The fall comedy, with the working title "Do Not Disturb," stars Jerry O'Connell and Niecy Nash in a show set at a hip New York hotel.

The new drama from Whedon, creator of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and "Firefly," comes at midseason. "Dollhouse" is about an underground group whose personalities have been wiped clean. It stars a former face from "Buffy," Eliza Dushku, and will play Mondays alongside the new season of "24," starting in January.

The other two new scripted midseason shows are animated. "The Cleveland Show" is creator Seth MacFarlane's spinoff from "Family Guy." Hurwitz, of "Arrested Development" fame, is behind a cartoon with the working title "Sit Down, Shut Up," about the high school staff in a small northeastern fishing town, with voices by Will Arnett, Jason Bateman, Will Forte, Kenan Thompson, Cheri Oteri and Henry Winkler.

In a reality show listed for midseason, "Secret Millionaire," wealthy Americans are put in the country's most impoverished neighborhoods, with hopes they'll donate some money by the experiment's end.

Because the writers' strike obliterated this year's entire season of "24," the wait for the next season in January 2009 will be mitigated by a two-night "prequel" shot on location in South Africa, setting the stage for the seventh season.

Gone from the schedule are "K-Ville," "New Amsterdam," "Back to You," "The Search for the Next Great American Band," "Canterbury's Law" and "The Return of Jezebel James" - all first-year attempts.